1944 NBC broadcast of the Ben Hecht & Kurt Weill Holocaust "dramatic pageant" We Will Never Die. Live from the Hollywood Bowl.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has a couple web pages about this production:

"Kurt Weill and We Will Never Die" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007047


"We Will Never Die: Shattering the Silence Surrounding the Holocaust" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007036


The program had a cast of 1,000 and among them: Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold, Joan Leslie, John Garfield, and Paul Henreid.

FYI: this is the same program that the Old Time Radio Researchers Group distributed as "Hollywood Bowl Holocaust Special" in their The Singles and Doubles Collection (here on Archive.org) with a date of the 4th of July 1944.

Any error or typo is mine. :)


This audio is part of the collection: WWII Archive
It also belongs to collection: Additional Collections

Artist/Composer: WA4CZD
Date: 1944
Keywords: World War, 1939-1945; World War II; 1944; WWII; Holocaust; Old Time Radio; The Shoah; Ben Hecht; Billy Rose; Ernst Lubitsch; Kurt Weill; Edward G Robinson; Edward Arnold; Joan Leslie; John Garfield; Paul Henreid

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Reviewer: muci - - May 28, 2012
Subject: This is so beautiful.
Thank you for posting this piece of history.